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These writings, new translated from Greek, are the earliest and most venerable examples of the mass of ecclesiastical literature produced in the first centuries A.D. They are the work of a group known as the Apostolic Fathers, who faithfully preserved the Apostolic teaching and tradition between the time of the Apostles and the late second century. Most of their writings take the form of epistles: those of Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch and Polycarp, for example, are warmly human and affectionate, while the anonymous "Epistle to Diognetus" and the "Epistle of Barnabas" are more impersonal. All, however, have a genuine pastoral concern -- they are interested more in people than ideas, in practice more than dogma.

One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. Written in the late fourth century by an anonymous author, it is an enigmatic combination of truth, invention and humour. This volume contains the first half of the History, and includes biographies of every emperor from Hadrian to Heliogabalus - among them the godlike Marcus Antonius and his grotesquely corrupt son Commodus. The History contains many fictitious (but highly entertaining) anecdotes about the depravity of the emperors, as the author blends historical fact and faked documents to present our most complete - albeit unreliable - account of the later Roman Caesars

An eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, Boethius was also an exceptional Greek scholar, and it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned when he fell from favor and was imprisoned in Pavia. Written in the period leading up to his brutal execution, The Consolation of Philosophy is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his "nurse", Philosophy, whose instruction on the nature of fortune and happiness, good and evil, fate and free will, restore his health and bring him to enlightenment.

The clarity of Boethius's thought and his breadth of vision made this work hugely popular throughout medieval Europe, and his ideas suffused the thought of Chaucer and Dante. This translation makes it accessible to the modern reader while losing nothing of Boethius's poetic artistry and philosophical brilliance.

With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Michael Irwin, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Kent, Canterbury.

The young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally succeeded with Desperate Remedies, a 'sensation novel' in the mode of Wilkie Collins. Here was a racy specimen of the genre, replete with sudden death, dark mysteries, intriguing clues, fire and storm, flight and pursuit.

Anyone who enjoys The Woman in White is likely to enjoy Desperate Remedies. But that is only half the story. Hardy contrived also, in this unlikely context, to give a first airing to various of the ideas and technical experiments which were to characterise his later fiction. The result is an exhilaratingly uneven work: at any point in the narrative some brilliant passage of description or metaphor may burst out like a firework. Desperate Remedies can be relished both for what it is and for what it promises.

One of the most moving accounts of being a boy ever written, My Childhood is a both wonderful and harrowing memoir - and one of the great works of Russian literature. A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.

'Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?'

So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867. His adventures produced The Innocents Abroad, a book so funny and provocative it made him an international star for the rest of his life. He was making his first responses to the Old World - to Paris, Milan, Florence, Venice, Pompeii, Constantinople, Sebastopol, Balaklava, Damascus, Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem.For the first time he was seeing the great paintings and sculptures of the 'Old Masters'. He responded with wonder and amazement, but also with exasperation, irritation, disbelief. Above all he displayed the great energy of his humour, more explosive for us now than for his beguiled contemporaries.

On a sunny day in June, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is getting ready for a party and exulting in the vibrant swell of London. As Clarissa's preparations take her from the golden morning to the glittering evening, she muses on the choices she made as a young woman, the romances that have enriched her life, and the passage of time. In another part of London, war hero Septimus Smith is suffering from shell shock - what we would now term PTSD - and is haunted by the death of his friend. He finds himself teetering on the brink of madness, unable to leave his wounds behind. Over the course of a single day, the lives of Clarissa and Septimus will interweave and finally converge as the party reaches its climax.

With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types of misfits in a Georgia mill town during the 1930s. Each one yearns for escape from small town life. When Singer's mute companion goes insane, Singer moves into the Kelly house, where Mick Kelly, the book's heroine (and loosely based on McCullers), finds solace in her music. Wonderfully attuned to the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition, and with a deft sense for racial tensions in the South, McCullers spins a haunting, unforgettable story that gives voice to the rejected, the forgotten, and the mistreated -- and, through Mick Kelly, gives voice to the quiet, intensely personal search for beauty.
Richard Wright praised Carson McCullers for her ability "to rise above the pressures of her environment and embrace white and black humanity in one sweep of apprehension and tenderness." She writes "with a sweep and certainty that are overwhelming," said the NEW YORK TIMES. McCullers became an overnight literary sensation, but her novel has endured, just as timely and powerful today as when it was first published. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER is Carson McCullers at her most compassionate, endearing best.

Who are you? When are you? What were you conscious of a moment ago? This groundbreaking book sees acclaimed psychologist Susan Blackmore combining the latest scientific theories about mind, self, and consciousness, with a lifetime's practice of Zen. Alongside her research on consciousness and memes, Susan Blackmore has been practicing Zen for over twenty-five years; not as a Buddhist, but as a scientist who longs to understand the mind. Many neuroscientists and philosophers believe that we need first-person approaches as well as third-person scientific research in order to fully comprehend consciousness. In "Ten Zen Questions", she brings the two together for the first time. Seeking to understand whether personal experience can help penetrate the scientific mystery of consciousness, she uses traditional techniques of calming the mind and looking directly into experience as she delves into ten great questions, including 'How does thought arise?', 'Am I conscious now?', and the Zen koan There is no time. What is memory? Featuring the ten questions, a critical response from her Zen master, and lively illustrations, "Ten Zen Questions" offers a revolutionary way to try to understand who we are. This is not the kind of book that provides final - or easy - answers, but instead offers an inspiring exploration of how intellectual inquiry and meditation can tackle the questions behind some of today's greatest scientific mysteries.

Adviezen en oefeningen voor vrouwen om een stukgelopen liefdesrelatie te verwerken.

By turns romantic and harshly realistic, Hemingway's story of a tragic romance set against the brutality and confusion of World War I cemented his fame as a stylist and as a writer of extraordinary literary power. A volunteer ambulance driver and a beautiful English nurse fall in love when he is wounded on the Italian front. The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the German attack on Caporetto -- of lines of fired men marching in the rain, hungry, weary, and demoralized -- is one of the greatest moments in literary history. A story of love and pain, of loyalty and desertion, A Farewell to Arms, written when he was 30 years old, represents a new romanticism for Hemingway.

Making Sense of Japanese is the fruit of one foolhardy American's thirty-year struggle to learn and teach the Language of the Infinite. Previously known as Gone Fishin', this book has brought Jay Rubin more feedback than any of his literary translations or scholarly tomes, "even if," he says, "you discount the hate mail from spin-casters and the stray gill-netter."

To convey his conviction that "the Japanese language is not vague," Rubin has dared to explain how some of the most challenging Japanese grammatical forms work in terms of everyday English. Reached recently at a recuperative center in the hills north of Kyoto, Rubin declared, "I'm still pretty sure that Japanese is not vague. Or at least, it's not as vague as it used to be. Probably."

The notorious "subjectless sentence" of Japanese comes under close scrutiny in Part One. A sentence can't be a sentence without a subject, so even in cases where the subject seems to be lost or hiding, the author provides the tools to help you find it. Some attention is paid as well to the rest of the sentence, known technically to grammarians as "the rest of the sentence."

Part Two tackles a number of expressions that have baffled students of Japanese over the decades, and concludes with Rubin's patented technique of analyzing upside-down Japanese sentences right-side up, which, he claims, is "far more restful" than the traditional way, inside-out.

"The scholar," according to the great Japanese novelist Soseki Natsume, is "one who specializes in making the comprehensible incomprehensible." Despite his best scholarly efforts, Rubin seems to have done just the opposite.

Previously published in the Power Japanese series under the same title and originally as Gone Fishin' in the same series.

The Universe Is Made Of Bits. The Way In Which The Universe Registers And Processes Information Determines What It Is And How It Behaves. It Has Been Known For More Than A Century That Every Piece Of The Universe - Every Electron, Atom, And Molecule - Registers Bits Of Information. It Is Only In The Last Ten Years, However, With The Discovery And Development Of Quantum Computers, That Scientists Have Gained A Fundamental Understanding Of Just How That Information Is Registered And Processed. Seth Lloyd Calls This Fundamental Understanding Of The Universe In Terms Of Information Processing 'The Computational Universe', And The Purpose Of This Book Is To Show How The Programmed, Computational Universe Works. Starting From Basic Concepts Of Physics, Programming The Universe Shows How All Physical Systems Register Information. It Gives An Accessible Account Of How Information Is Stored And Processed At The Level Of Electrons, Atoms, And Molecules. It Shows How The Information Processing Power Of The Universe Can Be Harnessed To Build Quantum Computers And Explains How The Universe Itself Behaves Like A Gigantic Computer, Transforming And Processing Information. It Traces The History Of Information Processing From The Big Bang To The Present Day, And Reveals How The Computational Ability Of The Universe Promotes The Evolution Of Complex Structures Such As Life. Programming The Universe Is The Story Of The Universe And The Bits It Is Made Of.

Aan de rand van de wereld in het midden van de stad. Van daaruit kun je goed kijken: het speelplein onder de nagels van een kind, nauwgezette knieën, zeventien ballen op een dak. De gedichten van Maud Vanhauwaert willen het bestaande opnieuw mogelijk maken. Zo krijgt dat wat hard en voldongen is weer het plooibare van een vermoeden.

In 'Oefening in het alleenlopen' zien we de wereld beurtelings door de ogen van een jong meisje en door die van een jonge vrouw. Haar verbeeldingskracht is groot, haar levenslust misschien nog groter. Maar haar wereld wordt bepaald door onverteerde geschillen, onvertelde verhalen en onbevredigde verlangens. In haar bedrieglijk naïeve observaties legt zij, tot haar eigen grote schrik, een ondraaglijke geschiedenis bloot.

Tweede, geheel herziene, druk, oktober 2017 Theunis Piersma is hoogleraar trekvogelecologie in Groningen en waddenonderzoeker bij het Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee (NIOZ) op Texel. Hij is een internationale autoriteit op het gebied van (trek)vogels. In zijn vrije tijd doet hij in zijn woonplaats, het Friese Gaast, onderzoek naar huiszwaluwen. Een dorpsgenoot vroeg hem eens: 'Waar blijven onze zwaluwen in de winter, Theunis?' Die vraag was aanleiding voor een zoektocht: hoe overleven huiszwaluwen en waar overwinteren ze? Piersma is een geboren verteller en verstaat de kunst om ingewikkelde, wetenschappelijke materie op een begrijpelijke en onderhoudende manier over te dragen. Een literair verslag van een persoonlijke zoektocht, een ode aan de huiszwaluw.

De in elkaar hakende verhalen in 'Onder vrienden' spelen zich af in de fictieve kibboets Jikhat. Ze schetsen wonderbaarlijk subtiele portretten van een aantal inwoners van de kibboets, die intieme dromen hebben en persoonlijke pijn ervaren in de schaduw van een van de grootste collectieve dromen uit de geschiedenis van de twintigste eeuw. Een bejaarde vader wiens jonge dochter gaat samenwonen met een kibboetslid van zijn leeftijd; een vrouw die een aangrijpende brief schrijft aan de vrouw voor wie haar man haar verlaten heeft; een 'buitenkind' dat vertrekt om zijn vader te bezoeken in een ziekenhuis voor dementerenden; en een oudere tuinman die alle rampen van de wereld op zijn schouders torst. Tezamen vormen de verhalen in deze bundel een onvergetelijk portret van een idee en een tijdperk. Amos Oz (Jeruzalem, 1939) wordt wereldwijd gezien als een van de grootste hedendaagse schrijvers en geldt als kandidaat voor de Nobelprijs.

Bundel bijdragen over de (met name literaire) geschiedenis van de Oekraïense havenstad.

Summary: In "Wat voorbij is begint pas" brengt Mortier een aantal opmerkelijke beschouwingen bijeen die allemaal gaan over taal en schrijven. Steeds onderzoekt hij de grillige trekken van het instrument dat hij als geen ander beheerst. Hij noemt taal het weefsel bij uitstek van ons zelfbewustzijn en zijn blinde vlekken, en het is nooit helemaal van ons. 'De vraag is of wij, als het over taal gaat, ooit anders kunnen dan op andermans kosten spreken.'

Hugo Claus schreef een groot aantal gedichten, en een niet onaanzienlijk deel ervan gaat over de liefde en ademt erotiek. Zijn vrouw Veerle maakte daaruit een fraaie keuze van vijftig gedichten.

Voor zijn nieuwe roman 'De bekeerlinge' gebruikte Hertmans opnieuw historische bronnen, maar ditmaal vond hij ze niet in zijn eigen familie. Volgens de uitgeverij: "In een klein dorp in de Provence wordt sinds mensenheugenis over een pogrom en een verborgen schat gesproken. Eind negentiende eeuw vindt men in de synagoge in Caïro een hoeveelheid opzienbarende Joodse documenten. Stefan Hertmans ontdekt de sporen van een voorname christelijke jonkvrouw uit de elfde eeuw, die haar leven vergooide voor een Joodse jongen. Hij gaat letterlijk achter deze vrouw aan, die samen met haar verboden liefde op de vlucht slaat en een duizelingwekkende tocht aflegt, opgejaagd door alles en iedereen ... Dat brengt hem in een chaotische wereld van passie, haat, liefde en dood, en voert hem uiteidelijk van Caïro terug naar het kleine Provençaalse dorp, waar hij sinds decennia thuis is"--Dust cover.

Gedichten van de Spaanse dichter (1898-1936).

Bundeling van het poëtisch oeuvre van de schrijver (1923) uit de periode 1939-1983.